US Home Front, Trench Art, & Sweetheart Items

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I War Service shipyard worker badge. The badge shows a ship in relief at center and has the starred and striped crest at top. VINTAGE: Circa World War I. SIZE: Approximately 1-9/16" in height and 1-7/16" in width...

ARTIFACT: This is a United States Boys Working Reserve 1918 honorable service pin. According to an old Indiana Board of Education booklet, the reserve was an "enrolled army of patriotic volunteer youths between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years,...

ARTIFACT: This is a small World War I United States Boys Working Reserve badge. According to an old Indiana Board of Education booklet, the reserve was an "enrolled army of patriotic volunteer youths between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years,...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I United States Boys Working Reserve badge. According to an old Indiana Board of Education booklet, the reserve was an "enrolled army of patriotic volunteer youths between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years, organized...

ARTIFACT: This is a numbered World War I United States Boys' Working Reserve badge. According to an old Indiana Board of Education booklet, the reserve was an "enrolled army of patriotic volunteer youths between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years,...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful World War I silver level worker badge for the United States Government nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Production of nitrate began within a few weeks of the end of World War I. There were three levels for this...

ARTIFACT: This is a numbered World War I United States aircraft factory worker badge by Whitehead & Hoag. The pin reads AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIAL SERVICE US ARMY NAVY and shows a propeller at center. VINTAGE: Circa World War I. SIZE: Approximately 5/8" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a great World War II laboratory technician identification badge for MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Work in the lab took place from October 1940 through December 1945 under the umbrella of the National Defense Research...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II United States Maritime Commission badge. The badge is round and reads WALSH-KAISER COMPANIES INC. UNITED STATES MARITIME COMMISSION 115. VINTAGE: Circa World War II. SIZE: 2" diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Tin...

ARTIFACT: This is an unusual numbered United States Ship Building patriotic pin. The pin reads SHIP BUILDING OUR ANSWER TO HITLER WAR SERVICE and shows a ship at center sailing on an ocean of blue enamel. VINTAGE: Circa World War II. SIZE: 7/8"...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I badge for the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen. The "Four L" formed in 1917 as a measure to preserve the wood supply crucial to the war effort from hindrances caused by labor strikes. The badge shows a forest scene...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare gold-front high-level contributor lapel pin for the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen (LLLL) from World War I. The "Four L" formed in 1917 as a measure to preserve the wood supply crucial to the war effort from hindrances...